Wrote this earlier but I sent it off to just Bob by mistake.
Damn Reply Button.
Ok so I checked out Blue Valentine & Heartattack & Vine.
For the most part I would say more of the same except for
"Somewhere" which he didn't write and possibly "Ruby's Arms"
which he did though it is still not in the same league as Foreign
Affair.
I could just picture it. Tom Waits in some seedy bar bumps into a
broadway show writer whose last show never made it into
post-production, down on his luck full of coke and his wife
just left him. Man, I need the bread so sure Tom I'll sell ya this
song for 100 bucks. They sure as hell don't need it anymore.
Me thinks I could write a Tom Waits song about it. Well maybe
if I was at least half the writer TW is- that is. Which I'm not of course.
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <<As for Tom Waits - I always wondered if TW actually wrote Foreign
Affair. The lyrics are so different from what he usually writes. >>
>
> I would never have thought that, Ken...can you be more specific as to
which lyrics you're referring to? Or just the general tone of the album?
>
> FA is brilliant, and very similar in my mind to Blue Valentine &
Heartattack & Vine, which came out around the same general period.
>
> "Potter's Field" from FA is Tom Waits' 'Paprika Plains', I think...
>
> Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come is CLASSIC Waits. NOBODY else could
have written it. Same goes for most of the songs on it, I would say.
>
> And, also like Blue Valentine, it features Rickie Lee Jones on the
cover!
>
> Bob, always up for a TW thread!
>
> NP: Steely Dan, "Cousin Dupree" 6/3/00
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <<As for Tom Waits - I always wondered if TW actually wrote Foreign Affair. The
>lyrics are so different from what he usually writes. >>
>
> I would never have thought that, Ken...can you be more specific as to which lyrics
>you're referring to? Or just the general tone of the album?
>
> FA is brilliant, and very similar in my mind to Blue Valentine & Heartattack & Vine,
>which came out around the same general period.
>
> "Potter's Field" from FA is Tom Waits' 'Paprika Plains', I think...
>
> Jack & Neal/California, Here I Come is CLASSIC Waits. NOBODY else could have written
>it. Same goes for most of the songs on it, I would say.
>
> And, also like Blue Valentine, it features Rickie Lee Jones on the cover!
>
> Bob, always up for a TW thread!
>
> NP: Steely Dan, "Cousin Dupree" 6/3/00
